The rhythm is subtle, yet influential; it exists but is essentially invisible to the reader. ... "contend in a sea which the land partly encloses/shielding them from the too-heavy blows/of an ungoverned ocean which when it chooses/tortures the biggest hulls, the best man knows/ to pit against its beatings, and sinks them pitilessly." (1-5) The first letter beginning the powerful sequence of tercets is oddly lowercased. ... Williams writes more of the control that the upper-class possesses when he speaks of the "ungoverned ocean" (3) torturing the biggest hulls, but that the "best man knows" ...

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